Smitty Two wrote:

I don't understand why people get so upset about this
stuff.

In many cases, it has the air of a company trying to sneak a price increase by
without anyone noticing it. People who are upset would prefer that the company
leave the packaging size alone and just raise the price. Unfortunately,
companies know that there are certain price points at which consumers will stop
buying, so they look for ways to stay below that price point. Reducing the
package contents helps them do that. Keeping the package sizing the same (or at
least the width) helps maintain reatiler shelf real estate - something that is
hard fought over.

The strange thing is that packaging and distribution costs frequently dominate
the actual copst of the product, so reducing the content doesn't save all that
much. Still, when you ship missions of units a year, even pennies help.